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Trump Administration Repeals Clean Water Rule, Threatening National Park Waterways and Drinking Water for Communities Across the Country
Today’s reckless move by the administration erases years of significant improvements to the protection of our nation’s waterways.
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Leasing Our Legacy: Lands Near Hovenweep National Monument Sold to Oil and Gas Bidders
In its latest step towards 'energy dominance' at the sacrifice of national parks and other public lands, the Trump Administration advanced more than 30,000 acres of oil and gas leases…
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House Takes Stand to Protect National Parks and Coastal Communities from Offshore Drilling
Today, members of the U.S. House of Representatives showed their commitment to defending America’s public lands and waters.
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Government Accountability Office Finds Secretary Bernhardt Violated Federal Law
Today, the Government Accountability Office found that the Interior Department illegally used funds to keep national parks open during the recent government shutdown.
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Blog Post 8 National Park Sites That Tell the Story of Immigration From Castle Clinton National Monument to Golden Gate National Recreation Area, national park sites explore the stark contrasts of the immigrant experience.
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Press Release National Trail and Conservation Groups Blast New DOI E-Bike Order Groups Fear Order Paves Way for Motorization of America’s National Trails, Parks and Public Lands
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Press Release Trump Administration Rolls Back Methane Rules, Provides More Loopholes for Oil and Gas Industry to Pollute National Parks and Communities Rolling back the regulations to allow more air pollution increases harm to public health and the health of national parks.
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Blog Post Wolves on the Rise at Isle Royale Researchers study the effects of 12 new wolves on this remote island park.
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Press Release Park Supporters Continue to Speak Up and Fight Back for Our National Monuments These monuments are public lands, meant to be protected for and enjoyed by everybody, not sacrificed for mining and drilling for the gain of a few.
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Policy Update Letter to CEQ Regarding NEPA Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions NPCA signed onto a letter representing the collective views of forty-one organizations representing millions of people. Its members urge the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to act responsibly and wisely in its interpretation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) so that future generations may live on this planet in “productive and enjoyable harmony” with the environment as envisioned by Congress when it passed NEPA.
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Policy Update Comment Letter on the Forest Service’s Proposed Rulemaking to Revise its NEPA Regulations NPCA is a signatory of the conservation community's comments on the Forest Service’s proposed rule regarding National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, 84 Fed. Reg. 27,544 (June 13, 2019), RIN 0596–AD31.
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Press Release Interior Begins Review on ‘Billion Dollar Driveway’ Through Wild Alaska Parks, Caribou Migration Pathways The 200+ mile mining road threatens one of the largest remaining Arctic caribou herds and Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
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Press Release Smog Standard Too Weak to Protect Parks and Forests, Court Rules Court Upholds Health Standard, Rejects Polluters’ Claims That Standards Are Too Protective
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Press Release Parks Group Responds to Management Plans that Threaten Grand Staircase-Escalante and Future of All National Monuments Plan Undermines Standards for National Monument Protections, Ignores Public Opposition and Ongoing Litigation Over Reduced Boundaries
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Blog Post What the Park System Needs for Its Birthday: Repairs This Sunday is the 103rd birthday of the National Park Service, yet so many of the 400-plus national park sites in the agency’s care need critical maintenance and repairs. Legislation exists that would help fix this problem — Congress just needs to vote on it.
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Magazine Article A Momentous Arrival Four hundred years ago, a pirate ship carrying enslaved Africans pulled into Point Comfort in Virginia. Was it the beginning of slavery in this country?
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Magazine Article After the Fire Months after a devastating fire consumed 100,000 acres in and around Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, a traveler finds new life and beauty among the ruins.
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Magazine Article Candid Cameras In national parks around the country, camera traps capture images that astonish, delight, inform, reveal — and have the power to change human behavior.
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Magazine Article Etched in Stone The Wall endeavors to list every U.S. service member killed in the Vietnam War. How much does it get wrong?
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Magazine Article A Mystery in Death Valley Fifty years ago, rangers in a California national park helped apprehend a band of hippie outlaws hiding out in the desert. Weeks later, they learned how big of a catch it was.
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Magazine Article An American Journey Was the story of Minidoka National Historic Site his story, too?
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Magazine Article Exposed Climate change reveals — and threatens — artifacts along Alaska’s famed Chilkoot Trail.
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Magazine Article The Last Wild One After the chance discovery of a Franciscan manzanita, the rare plant was carefully relocated to a secret location in San Francisco’s Presidio. Can it survive in the wild?
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Magazine Article Subterranean Secrets A Carlsbad Caverns Comic
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Press Release Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Attack on Endangered Species Act NPCA, wildlife and conservation groups head to court on Trump-Bernhardt’s extinction plan
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Press Release EPA Finalizes Guidance that Encourages States to Ignore Air Rules Protecting National Parks Changes to Regional Haze Rule Guidance Could Set Our National Parks and Wilderness Areas Back Decades
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Blog Post To Breathe Free... Lady Liberty's promise of refuge and hope must remain a promise made to all.
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Press Release Parks Group Files Opposition Brief in Lawsuit Over Illegally-Permitted Dominion Transmission Line at Historic Jamestown Dominion Energy has played loose and fast with the courts and prioritized irresponsible development over historic Jamestown and nearby national parks.
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